Politics and Neo-Darwinism : and Other Essays.
Title:
Politics and Neo-Darwinism : and Other Essays.
Author:
Rubens, Tom.
ISBN:
9781845403577
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (168 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Prefatory Note -- Body Matter -- Section I -- 1. Politics & Neo-Darwinism -- 2. Shakespeare & Sartre: The Defence of Political Violence -- 3. Economic Hardship in Shakespeare's Plays -- 4. Intellectual Foci in British Society since 1945 -- 5. Liberal Politics & Literature -- 6. The Idea of a Classless Society -- 7. Questions Facing Socialism as a Cultural Outlook -- 8. The Welfare State Liberal -- Section II -- 9. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity -- 10. Anti-Bourgeois Attitudes in the West -- 11. French Rationality in the 18th Century -- 12. Mental Perspectives in the West -- 13. Genius & Changes in Social Context -- 14. Change & Continuity in Western Intellectual Culture -- 15. Philosophy's Position in Contemporary Western Society -- Section III -- 16. The Aesthetic & the Moral -- 17. An Inescapable Duality -- 18. Scientific & Poetic Modes of Describing Physical Objects in the World -- 19. The Recognition of Causality -- 20. Mechanistic & Teleological Causality -- 21. Isaiah Berlin on Determinism: A Reply -- 22. Essence, Existence, & Identity -- 23. Emotivism: The Irreducibility of Feeling-Positions -- 24. Kantianism & … -- 25. The Idea of Power & the Secular Sense of Awe -- 26. The Uses of the Term 'Materialism' -- 27. Schopenhauer & Sartre -- 28. Spinoza vs. Kant -- 29. Morality & the Doctrine of Progressive Historicism -- 30. Value-Positions in Dawkins & Darwin -- Back Matter -- Also Available from Andrews UK and Imprint Academic.
Abstract:
This collection of essays is eclectic, covering certain political, ethical, cultural, and philosophical topics. But running through all the material is the evolutionary-naturalistic perspective stated in the opening essay, which gives the book its title. Another emphatic feature is a focus on the Western cultural outlook, as the context in which the large number of topics is viewed. This focus is important as a way of re-affirming the distinctive character of Western intellectual and cultural history, at a time when that character is, arguably, not sufficiently recognised and appreciated. Authors referred to include Aristotle, Shakespeare, Voltaire, and Sartre.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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